Totalitarianism: Stalinist Russia

Five-Year Plan

set impossibly high quotas to increase output of steel, coal, oil, and electricity

Stalin's campaign of terror designed to eliminate anyone who threatened who power was called

the Great Purge

A government that takes total, centralized control over all aspects of public and private life is an example of

totalitarianism

totalitarianism

a government that takes total, centralized, state control over every aspect of public and private life

command economy

a system in which the government made all economic decisions

Industrial Policies

Five Year Plans -impossibly high quotas to increase the output of steel, coal, oil, and electricity -people faced severe shortages of housing, food, clothing, etc

Stalin's proposals for the development of the Soviet Union's economy were called

Five-Year Plans

Lenin's successor, who worked to control every aspect of life in the Soviet Union, was

Joseph Stalin

A group of officially-sponsored atheists who spread propaganda attacking religion was the

League of the Militant Godless

A system in which the government makes all economic decisions is called

a command economy

Art/Religion

-League of the Militant Godless -Russian Orthodox Church - target of persecution -art showed importance of work

Control Methods

-Police State-monitored phones, read mail, and planted informers everywhere -Great Purge

Propaganda Methods

-government controlled everything

Education

-learned virtues of Communist Party -importance of sacrifice and hard work

The agricultural revolution in the USSR combined privately-owned farms into large, government-owned farms called

collective farms

Agricultural Policies

collective farms-hundreds of families worked on these farms producing food for the state

Totalitarian leaders used all of the following methods of control except

free elections

collective farm

hundreds of families worked on these farms producing food for the state